Nonprofit promotes business, gives back By Bill Howard Late in 2019, Charlie Pratt and Blake Foote, financial advisers for Modern Woodmen of America, came up with an idea: why not start a nonprofit that would not only promote business activity in Fountain City, but...
By Steve Williams Bearden High’s boys basketball team set a goal this season to set a school record for fewest points allowed by its opponents. Head Coach Jeremy Parrott also considered his Bulldogs the defending state champions after his 2019 team won the school’s...
By Ray Hill Carroll Reece, thirty years old and a veteran of the First World War, had defeated Congressman Sam R. Sells for the right to carry the Republican Party banner in the general election of 1920. Sells had not taken his defeat lightly and had tried to...
By Ken Lay When the Central High School boys soccer team opens its season today at Seymour, it will mark the first time that the Bobcats have been on the pitch for a match since March 12, 2020. Central coach Chris Quinn remembers that day vividly. The afternoon began...
By Steve Williams Opening Day 2021 was a runaway for perennial softball power Gibbs High. The Lady Eagles rolled past visiting Pigeon Forge 35-0 in a District 3-AA game that was mercifully stopped after 2½ innings of play. As for the bright spots, Carol Mitchell,...
COURT NOTICES Non-Resident NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR UNION COUNTY, TENNESSEE JAMES TODD SHOPE and MARLENA GRACE SHOPE, Petitioners, v. RACHAEL LOUISE COCHRAN, Respondents. Case No. 3836 In this cause, it appearing from the Petition...
Vestal neighborhood moving forward By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com South Knoxville is moving forward with many improvements in the Vestal neighborhood. Some of the improvements were discussed last week in a Zoom meeting of the Vestal Community...
By Steve Hunley Local Democrats were quick to squall over the election of Daniel Herrera as chairman of the Knox County Republican Party. When was the last time the Knox County Democratic Party elected a young Hispanic as the local leader of their own party? It was...
By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com Looking for the best auto repairs by a local family-owned and operated business? For all around repairs and maintenance of all makes of vehicles you can’t beat Fountain City Auto Clinic at 2823 Woodrow Drive. Tammie...
“Live so that when you die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Sign that hung in the business office of Jim Cummings. By Ray Hill James H. Cummings is likely a name unfamiliar to most readers, but during his time he was a power and a man to be reckoned with. When he...
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